Om Mani Padme Hum

I'm back from Leh. It was a pretty cool trip - even if I did get sick.

I'll have pictures up soon. Some quick thoughts:

• Older German women look like characters out of a Star Wars movie.
• Jet Airways is probably the best carrier I've ever flown. They served a full breakfast on an hour flight and the flight attendants look like models, but not the ones on the website.
• Getting sick sucks. Getting sick on vacation by yourself in a far away land with no TV really sucks.
• I lost count of the number of Buddhas I saw.
• I lost count of the number of times I got frisked this morning before boarding the plane, though it beats the alternative.
  
• I'm getting my nose cauterized when I get back to the States.
• I failed my first attempt at bartering.
• I'm going to need some new sneakers after a month in India.
  
• Giving free care to the kids in Leh to justify your $400,000 a year Dr. salary (and trekking hobby), still makes you a pompous jackass.
• I wouldn't make a very good Buddhist.
  

- b